Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1828236179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-226169

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Unemployment in the United States

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States, Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: II, 193 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Miss Grace E. Cooke, representing the National Employment Board, Boston, Mass

Collection:: Economics Books

148 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES pli Cooke. Yes, they do; because some of our railroad offices and other—— Mr. MicueNER. The reason I am asking these questions is because it is all new to me. I have not taken any position here and I want to understand if there is any fight here between the trade unions and the open shop folks. If there is, just let us be frank about it. Miss Cooke. We take no stand in that matter; none of our members are what is termed strike-breaking agencies and, in fact, I do not bel’eve there are many agencies in the country to-day that engage in that special kind of work, that is, fee-charging agencies. There are agencies set up and maintained for that special purpose. Mr. MicHENER. And if this legislation became a law, it would then put out of commission any of these agencies to which you have referred? Miss Cooke. It places in prejudiced hands blanket authority to make rules and regulation which would, in fact, be so arbitrary that we could not exist, with the possibility of elimination through direct legislation—— Mr. Micaener. What would happen in a case like this: Suppose there were a coal field, for instance, in Illinois, highly organized and there was a coal field in West Virginia that was not organized and the conditions were such in the West that they needed more fuel, needed more men for the coal to be mined from the organized field, and they notified your employment bureau they needed 500 men in this mine and you had on your list 500 men from the nonunion mine in West Virginia, would you send the nonunion miners on to work with the union miners in Illinois? Miss CooxE. Assuming that I conducted an agency or any of our members conducted an agency serving miners, if I assume that to be the case, I will answer your question. I would look into the matter pretty thoroughly, because I think it is generally understood, although I am not speaking with authority—a representative of the federation can best answer that question—I think it is generally understood that the men who come from one State would have pretty hard sledding to get a job in the other State, if the American Federation branch in that State did not see fit to let those men go to work. ‘Now I want this to be kept in mind: The fee-charging agency charges the employee; it is consequently necessary to consider the employee's interest first. We can not effectively serve one without efficiently serving the other. Mr. MicueNER. I appreciate that. I do not want to go into that, but throughout this hearing this thing has occurred to me: Here is a town, for instance, or a locality, where they specialize in a certain line of industry, manufacturing, for instance where they might use tool makers, highly skilled labor, the best paid labor in the country to-day. Now this might be an open-shop territory. In another part of the country, engaged in the same line of industry, that territory might be highly organized. Under existing conditions, it is im-~ possible for the man who does not belong to the organization to be employed, where the organization controls, and possibly in some other cases vice versa. Now if we adopted this legislation and there was a shortage of labor in one locality and a surplusage in the other and the question of organized labor comes in, what is going to happen? Are we going to be able to. make the law function and to transport this

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